Background
His mother was the distinguished clinical immunologist Deborah Doniach.
His mother was the distinguished clinical immunologist Deborah Doniach.
Sebastian Doniach received a Bachelor of Arts from Christ"s College, Cambridge in 1954 and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Liverpool with Herbert Fröhlich in 1958.
His research interests include theoretical condensed matter physics, superconductivity, and biophysics. His contributions to the field of condensed matter physics include the Lawrence-Doniach model of superconductivity and his book on Green"s functions in solid state physics with East. H. Sondheimer. Sebastian Doniach is one of the pioneers of synchrotron X-ray sources and served as the first director of the Stanford Synchrotron.
His research group at Stanford currently uses radiation from the Stanford Synchrotron and from the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory for studies of protein and Ribonucleic acid structure and dynamics.